What does 'DIVIDED' mean ?!

Question: Lots of recipes call for the food item (apples, etc.) to be 'divided' in preparation. What's that refer to doing?

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Answers: Lots of recipes call for the food item (apples, etc.) to be 'divided' in preparation. What's that refer to doing?

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Usually that means to divide the food equally into two. So if it called for 2 cups sugar, divided, you would need two one cup measurements fo sugar seperately.

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If let's say it's 1 1/2 cups of water divided, that means that that is the total amount of water you need. Somewhere in the recipe it may call for 1 cup and then further along the other 1/2 cup.

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It means that you will only use part of an ingredient in a recipe first and then the rest of it later on. Its just so they don t have to put the same ingredient on the recipe twice

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split in to 2

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Cut in half

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